dan wrote:
> i only run some test servers and redundant servers on vmware but i treat
> them like a real machine.  monthly, i power down the VM and do a snapshot on
> the host.  best of both worlds.  then the VM host gets backed up and i have
> a long term backup of the VM image.

If you want to do the equivalent on a real machine, one approach is to 
use clonezilla live.  http://clonezilla.sourceforge.net/clonezilla-live/
This is a bootable CD image that can save/restore image copies of drives 
or partitions much like Norton Ghost except that it knows how to save 
just the used portion of most Linux filesystems as well as ntfs and can 
use an assortment of network access methods to mount the storage 
location (nfs/smb/sshfs).

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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